(HBO) – Hoa Binh province’s locomotive zone includes Hoa Binh city, Luong Son district and the north of Lac Thuy district. Aware that they will enjoy dynamic development, helping improve locals' material and spiritual lives, and stimulate economic growth in adjacent areas, the agriculture sector has paid attention to improving products' added value, economic efficiency and competitiveness to ensure production sustainability.
Photo: Residents in Cu Yen commune of Luong Son
district have reaped good profits thanks to dragon fruit farming development.
In localities in the locomotive zone, irrigation works
have supplied water to 11,171 ha of rice fields since the beginning of this
year, up 1,312 ha from 2017. The zone is now home to 325 irrigation works and
systems, up 49 works from 2017.
The localities have also formed and developed safe, indigenous vegetable farming
areas, promoted safe farming under VietGAP and food safety standards to meet
market demand. There are 30 production facilities on a total 410.52 ha meeting
food safety, VietGAP and organic standards.
The province has issued seven farming zone codes, including four banana and
dragon fruit cultivation zones for export to China and three pomelo farming
areas to export to Europe, and five codes for packaging facilities for export.
So far, the locomotive zone have shipped over 700 tonnes of banana to China,
and more than 50 tonnes of white and purple sugar canes to Europe.
Along with production development, further attention
has also been paid to raising awareness of environment protection in farming.
As many as 12 training courses have been held to disseminate legal regulations
to 4,000 people on the collection, transport and treating containers of plant
protection chemicals after use.
Additionally, vocational training and technological
transfer courses are held annually with more than 1,410 farmers taking part,
through which they gain new knowledge to meet socio-economic development
requirements in the new period and provide quality products for markets. So
far, 37 products in the One Commune, One Product (OCOP) programme in the zone
have met three-star and higher standards, or 37% of total OCOP products in the
province with nine products rated as four-star, and 28 three-star./.
In the first quarter of 2024, the credit institutions in the province have actively deployed the legal documents of the State and the State Bank relating to currency, credit and interest rates. At the same time, they have promoted the capital mobilization, focusing on the solutions to expand the credit investment along with strengthening the credit quality management, lending to priority programs to promptly meet the capital needs for export - business and consumer demand during Tet in 2024.
Outside the key economic region of Hoa Binh, yet Lac Son district has utilised its potential and strengths regarding labour, land, and transportation connectivity to attract investment to the locality, contributing to promoting socio-economic development.
In a move to expedite the execution and disbursement of the 2024 capital plan for ODA projects, aiming for a disbursement rate of over 90% of the allocated funding, the Hoa Binh People's Committee issued Document No. 483/UBND-KTN on April 3, 2024, regarding such efforts.
Nguyen Van Thap from Kim Duc hamlet, Vinh Tien commune, Kim Boi district, has built the brand of Hoa Qua Son for local fruits. His efforts have brought about income for his family and generated job opportunities for locals, helping hundreds of households escape from poverty.
The Hoa Binh administration was entrusted by the Prime Minister with a budget of 3.43 trillion VND (142.91 million USD) for investment in 2024. The provincial People's Council approved nearly 3.76 trillion VND, which has been meticulously allocated to projects, achieving 100% of the assigned capital plan.
Hoa Binh province has mobilised all resources to propel local agricultural products to make inroads into foreign markets, towards lifting the export turnover of key agricultural products to 137.8 million USD by 2030, accounting for 3.4% of the locality’s total export value of goods.
The locality aims to export farm produce to the US, the European Union, the UK, China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea.
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